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The USA is much, much more homogeneous than Europe.
by yau8edq12i 2y ago
The USA is much, much more homogeneous than Europe.
- beretguy 2y agoI wouldn’t say that. I am from Europe and I’ve never seen as much diversity as in usa.
- michaelt 2y agoJust count the number of official languages.
- grardb 2y agoThe US has no official languages, so by that metric, the US is the most homogenous country in the world. FWIW, as an American living in Europe, I do agree that the US is far more homogenous.
- beretguy 2y agoA lot of people in usa don’t even speak English. I constantly run into those even in the South, let alone big big cities which have posters/ads/instructions label/etc. in foreign languages in public places.
- endofreach 2y agoGuess how many people in europe don't even speak: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish or Swedish... or even Esperanto!
- yau8edq12i 2y agoSeriously? In my experience, having lived in several places in Europe and in the US: Americans like to pretend that calling it "pop" or "soda" depending on where you are in the country, or Chicagoans having a deeper pizza while food in the bayou is spicier, or Californians liking surf while Iowans are into hunting, constitutes fundamental differences. Meanwhile, they all share the same overall culture: same language, same tv shows, same movies, same school systems, same university systems, same sports, same music, same historical figures and references, same laws, same political figures and topics... There are slight variations here and there, of course; just like in any European country. But ask a Hungarian and a Spanish person if they watched the same shows as kids or learned the same stuff in school, and see where that gets you. Most Americans I've met take their country's cultural baseline for granted and magnify the slight differences among themselves.
- walthamstow 2y agoHow much of the USA have you been to though?
- beretguy 2y agoCalifornia, Michigan, South Carolina.